Truth
Ben Harper is a great singer songwriter and “Diamonds on the Inside” is one of his best. Diamonds on the Inside (Listen to this song here) I knew a girl, her name was Truth She was a horrible liar She couldn’t spend one day alone But she couldn’t be satisfied When you have everything You…
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Many are talking about entitlement. It has become the recognized sin of our time. A provincial premier uses taxpayer’s money for expensive airfare and the media speaks of an environment of entitlement within the government. The Boomer generation feels entitled to an affluent retirement after years of hard work. The Millennial generation feels entitled to…
Continue readingFlight Behaviour
I just finished reading Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel, Flight Behavior. As usual, this Kingsolver book is about the concept of “home.” In this particular narrative, she speaks of the tenuous nature of the “home.” She weaves a story that describes the tension between the draw toward home and the desire to fly away to something…
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Jesus knew very well that “the medium is the message.”1 Therefore, he did not come to establish a new religion; he came to establish a new community. Peter Steinfels said, The work of Jesus was not a new set of ideals or principles for reforming or even revolutionizing society, but the establishment of a new…
Continue readingCapax Humanitatis
Brilliant words from N.T. Wright: I think it’s important that Christian theologians give a fully Trinitarian account of God’s action in the world, in which, though God may be thought of as a pure spirit, it is vital for our knowing who God is that he is the father who sends the son and who…
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